United States First Circuit

A Massachusetts state law, regulating speech and activities within a buffer zone around health care facilities which perform abortions, is constitutional.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/12/2004
• Published 10/12/2004

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, LYNCH, Circuit Judge, SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark L. Rienzi and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP for appellants., Dwight G. Duncan and Thomas M. Harvey on brief for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• William W. Porter, Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts, with whom Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General of Massachusetts, was on brief, for appellees.